In a nutshell: This app offers a visually appealing alternative to a standard Facebook app.

Cool factor: Paper presents Facebook in a format better tailored for mobile phones, but also demonstrates what a newspaper could look like in the digital age. Paper presents two sections - on top, a large centerpiece photo with a main story from your news feed, and below, a series of posts shown as cards that you can flick left or right, and enlarge to view full screen. You can also add up to nine more sections with wider topics like headlines, tech, sports, food, ideas, enterprise, pop life and LGBT.

Note: Although promising, Paper is a work in progress, for now only available on iPhone/iPod touch. It would be better if you could pick topic sections sources, as with Flipboard.